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Saturday, December 20, 2014

What a Siddha yogi and ‘PK’ taught me about ‘my’ God

Learn to value and celebrate the divinity
within you. It may not solve your problems but will show you a better way to
live with them!

Yesterday, I heard of the demise of a good
friend of mine, Kavi Rajan, who was a Siddha yogi and was only 47 years old. We first met him 10 years ago when
we had gone to him “seeking solutions” to our debt problem. He said, rather
simplistically: “Embrace your debt. Love it. It is a guest in your Life. It has
come to teach you something. It will go away just the way it has come.”
Initially I resisted his advice. But, over the years, I found his call to
“accept Life for what is” very meaningful. This drew me and my wife closer to
him. We met him probably once or twice in a year. But each time we came away
enriched and energized. He was not the bearded, saffron-clad yogi. No, he was not a Godman. He wore a
lungi, a sleeve-less vest or a shirt,
smoked a beedi and led a normal,
worldly Life with his wife and two young children. But he was a man who,
according to me, certainly had realized his God. He would tell us: “Don’t make
me a guru and don’t think I am your
God. Realize the divinity within you. I am only a means to your spiritual
awakening. Once you are awakened, you won’t need me.” My wife and I will miss
him in his physical form but we are sure we will always feel his presence in
our lives.

Aamir Khan in 'PK'Picture Courtesy: Internet

I only wish many of the seekers out there get
an opportunity to be guided and awakened by evolved souls like my friend Kavi.
What is unfortunate is that almost every religion’s preachers today claim to
find “solutions” to people’s problems and in turn make them fearful and
confused. In the name of helping them reach or connect with God, those who have
made religion their business, exploit gullible people of their money, time,
resources, emotions and faith. This is the central theme of a beautiful movie I
saw yesterday – Aamir Khan’s PK
(2014, Rajkumar Hirani). Khan’s character PK
makes an impassionate appeal to all of us. He says, that there is no problem
with the creator, the one who created the world and its people. The problem is
with the God that man created. That God, he said, was a hostage of individual
religions and the self-proclaimed custodians of these religions are exploiting
mankind. PK urges us to snap out of
our stupor and awaken to a more meaningful way of living our lives! He makes a
pertinent and sound case for a world without religion, where all people are
equal – just the way they are created – and who respect the divinity in each
other.

Indeed there is a divinity in each of us. This
divinity is nothing but the Life energy that is powering us – because of which
we are alive and are capable of experiencing the abundance in our lives and in
the Universe. But we miss this abundance because we don’t realize this divinity.
We are trapped in our self-defined world of limitations – our anxieties, insecurities,
grief, guilt and fears – and in our elusive search for a God outside of us.
Only when we break free from our limitations and look within – a journey which
can commence through self-realization and awakening – will we find lasting inner
peace and happiness.

When you realize yourself, you will
appreciate and celebrate the fact that there’s no greater God than the one you
see in the mirror every morning. You will understand that there is no better
way to live than to accept what is or whatever is happening to you. You will then value each moment and begin to live your Life
fully – without fear and without expectations!